Vol 22 – Issue 49 – Page 5

Sharp Prepares 8k for ISE

by Tom Allen

ISE preparations are under-way, with more companies having announced their plans for the show. ISE 2016 will run from the 9th – 12th February in Amsterdam. NEC (4.R24) will again split its stand into …

Glass, Projection and UHD at CES

by Tom Allen

Corning, LG and the UHD Alliance have announced their plans for CES 2016 (6th – 9th January, Las Vegas). Corning caused a stir with its 2011 promotional video, A Day Made of Glass (http://tinyurl.com/8psw74h). …

Ending the Year in 8k

by Tom Allen

Japan’s Red & White Song Competition (Kohaku Uta Gassen) will be broadcast in 8k again (Display Monitor Vol 19 No 51) this year, by NHK. It will be shown in Yokohama, Chiba City, Kyoto …

Barco Moves in China

by Tom Allen

Almost 100 units of Barco’s new D2K-6E projector have been shipped to customers in China. Billed as ‘the smallest projector in the [digital cinema] industry’, the DP2K-6E is being used to upgrade smaller cinemas …

Sinclair Uses ATSC in UHD HDR Demo

by Tom Allen

Sinclair Broadcast Group has demonstrated the first end-to-end transmission of UltraHD HDR Scalable High Efficiency Video (SHVC) encoded content, using ATSC 3.0. The signal came from Sinclair’s facility on Black Mountain, near Las Vegas, …

Asus Takes Design Win

by Tom Allen

A new desktop display from Asus appears to be aimed at users with multiple monitors. The Designo MX25AQ has very slim (1mm) outer bezels on the edges and top. Winner of a 2015 iF …

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AUO Execs Found Guilty of CSOT Leak

by Tom Allen

The Hsinchu Court in Taiwan has found two former AUO executives guilty of leaking information, including AMOLED technologies, to CSOT (AUO Alleges Industrial Espionage, Display Monitor Vol 19 No 42). The executives were named …

LDM Product Roundup – Vol 22 No 49

by Tom Allen

Germany’s Hy-Line is now stocking a 19″ LCD a-Si IPS panel from LG Display. The LB190E02-SL04 is an ‘almost square’ unit (1280 x 1024, 5:4), capable of operating between 0° and 50°. It is …

DTG Clears 4k Confusion

by Tom Allen

The UK’s Digital Television Group (DTG) has launched a new website called UHDReady.co.uk, with the aim of helping retailers to understand and sell the benefits of UltraHD technology. Users can look up TVs by …

Apple Scores $550m Payout From Samsung

by Tom Allen

Apple has won a patent dispute against Samsung in the USA. The Korean company will be forced to pay $548 million, as part of the $1 billion settlement in damages that Apple was awarded …

Canon Working on Simulation Projector

by Chris Chinnock

Canon was at I/ITSEC 2015, but was not really disclosing much. They had a theater where they were showing a demo of their laser phosphor projector, but they did not want to let us …

General Dynamics Focuses on Fire Fighting VR Application

by Chris Chinnock

Last year at I/ITSEC, General Dynamic was just starting to develop a VR application to help with fire fighter training, especially in military and commercial applications. This year, they showed the progress they have …